The Sentinels we travelled the wide oceans, heard many call your name

family welcome!!! this will be the thread deirdre says her first word! dated today.

there was a new change, and it had come, but deirdre had stepped away from it and for four days, remained utterly silent except for speaking in her nonsensical babble with her sister. it was the next step, but something had held her by the nape and provoked her tongue to still itself. perhaps it was simply her observational skills that caused this degree of quietude, but who could be sure?

to do this thing would be to lose another, but what that other was she wasn't quite sure, she couldn't remember. as of late, deirdre would move to snuggle into their family and listen, open her mouth as though she might say something... and then close it, and continue to listen, like the thought had never occurred to her. to her sister, she murmured a quiet, sweet and tender, emaleth. and then she knew she could do it, bolstered by her sisters name, confident she would not fail the next time. perhaps it was her fear that caught her tongue.

it was around evening time, and deirdre sprawled atop her sister and harassed her with adoration. at that moment, a dark shadow filled the den. whether it was her mother or her father was lost on her, or even her brother! that it was dark meant it was not the wolf she now knew as 'eilidh', or her sister. she poked her older (but not oldest, evidently) sister with her nose, whispering something in their language, before she sprinted to the denmouth and hollered out a loud: athair!!!

her eyes twinkled with their knowing, and the word bubbled from her lips and laced it with all the love she possessed for the being. if it were her mother, it would have been just the same, but as he had been the latest one who had been absent for some measure of time [more than she preferred] it was him she thought of now.